Kulon Progo Info Night – A Tale of Sand and Those Who Feed From It
Wednesday, September 28 · 6:30pm - 9:30pm.
62 St Georges Rd, Northcote (Melbourne Anarchist Club)
**6.30 for 7pm films**
Thousands of farmers across the communities of Kulon Progo, Central Java, Indonesia, are fighting for their land and very survival.
A joint Australian-Indonesian consortium is seeking to mine iron-ore, and with a pilot project running and the full backing of the state they look set to go ahead.
The people of Kulon Progo are calling for global solidarity in their struggle against the mining and dispossession, and for self determination. But they especially call on us in Australia to take action to stop Australian involvement in the project.
For generations oppressed by colonial occupiers and impoverished by the very land they live on, the communities of Kulon Progo have turned marginal coastline into a farming success story. Something they describe as a blueprint for communities across Indonesia.
Come find out about one of the most amazing untold stories of community agriculture, grass-roots organising, and the fight for land rights and self determination.
Climate Change – State Action or Direct Action?
The next Fantin Reading Group session has been organizado and is ready to go!:
Climate Change – State Action or Direct Action?
We're heading into an era when the question of whether the state can save capitalism in a context of envionmental collapse is one of the most important strategical questions of our time. It seems increasingly unlikely that governments are capable of responding within the predicted 10 years we have to prevent dangerous climate change. Is there still potential for a grassroots climate revolution? Or are we all completely fucked?
1-3pm, Saturday 24 September @ the Melbourne Anarchist Club, 62 St Georges Rd Northcote.
Readings (optional) are available from the Fantin Reading Group Blog (past readings are also available on the site). They include a text by energy activist Kolya Abramsky and a statement on environmental working-class revolution by a member of the First of May Anarchist Alliance.
All welcome, hope to see you there!
Fantin Reading Group: Police repression in Victoria
3-5pm, Sunday 31st of July.
Victoria's police state is thriving. Ted Baillieu's new 'Public Order Response Team'. New knife laws that allow police to search people in 'designated areas' without reasonable suspicion that any crime has been committed. Police brutality at a Maribrynong refugee protest. The arrest of 19 protesters at a BDS demonstration. Plus, police now have automatic weapons. Hooray!
Come to the Melbourne Anarchist Club to discuss these new developments and how we can defend our right to protest. All welcome!
Readings (optional) will be posted on the Fantin blog closer to the date.
Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair
10am-6pm, Saturday 13th of August
“The Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair will be a free event held at Abbotsford Convent from 10am-6pm on Saturday 13th August, 2011. The bookfair will consist of up to 30 stalls of anarchist and activist groups and independent book-sellers. Alongside the stalls there will be about 16 one-hour workshops running all day on all kinds of anarchist and direct action topics. There will also be a small kids' space if carers want to self-organise child minding or the kids just want to play indoors.” For more info see: http://amelbournebookfair.org/
MAC will be having a stall at the upcoming Anarchist Bookfair. Some members will also be speaking at workshops about anarchism.
Workshops at the Bookfair will include: introduction to anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarcho-feminism, direct democracy and federalism, organising anarchist community spaces, anarchy and violence, grassroots journalism, gender spectrum/queer, leaderless revolutions, free range kids.
The organising group is also planning a ‘Camp Anarchy’ to take place in March 2012 at Camp Eureka.
75th Anniversary of the Spanish Revolution Celebration
3pm Saturday 16th of July
The Spanish Revolution was the closest the world has ever come to an anarchist inspired revolution.
We will be marking this historic event with a BBQ, games, bands and a short discussion about how we can apply the ideas of the Spanish anarchists today.
There will also be a piñata.
Download the poster (PDF, 70kb).
Steve Ignorant to give a talk at MAC
Steve Ignorant speaks about all things Crass, Conflict and his new autobiography, The Rest is Propaganda, before taking to the stage at the Tote the following evening. Supported by A Commoner's Revolt and Ducks in the Mud.
Sound will be done by our good friends at Black Star P.A. Collective.
16 June
19:00 - 22:00
$5 entry
MAC
62 St Georges Rd
Northcote
May Day BBQ
4–9pm Sunday May 1 @ 62 St Georges Rd Northcote
Every year we celebrate May 1, the workers' day of international class solidarity. We'll mark the event with a BBQ and bands in the afternoon.
Featuring acoustic sets from:
- Tom Denton (Sweet Teens)
- Wil Wagner
- Jim Power (Ducks in the Mud)
- A Commoner's Revolt (solo)
For information on the anarchist origins of May Day click here.
FILM SCREENING: Libertarias
7pm – 9:30pm Wednesday April 20 @ MAC
We're screening this great fictionalised account of Mujeres Libres (Free Women) in the Spanish Revolution. The space will be open at 7pm and the film screening will start at 7:30pm.
140th Anniversary Celebration of the Paris Commune
Featuring a dramatic reading from Bertolt Brecht's The Days Of The Commune
An acoustic set of music by Brendan McGloin
A DJ set by Hamburger Lady
The launch of a new anarchist publication
And more.
Melbourne Anarchist Club
7pm–12:30am, Saturday March 19th
62 St Georges Rd, Northcote
Free / Donation
